Senior ML Research Scientist - Search & NLP Innovation

Yahoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 143,625 - 299,375; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Education stipends

Flexible hybrid work

Job summary

Yahoo Search is seeking a senior ML engineer to reimagine search by applying advanced AI techniques and building scalable ML-powered features. You will work across data, research, and product teams to translate research into production systems.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years driving impact in industry, a PhD or MS in a related field, and deep experience with NLP, ML, and search ranking. You will code in Java/Scala/Python and contribute to publications and patents.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of track record driving impact in the industry.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Math or related field.
• Expertise in AI, machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing.
• Experience with Search Ranking.
• Advanced coding skills in languages such as Java, Scala, Python or similar.
• Experience with collaborative research, as evidenced through solid publications or proven track record of designing and leading integration of state‑of‑the‑art ML techniques into products.

Responsibilities

• Understand the technical challenges of a real world problem and map to ML paradigms.
• Code up algorithms and champion them to be used in products.
• Review state-of-the-art approaches and propose appropriate solutions.
• Identify opportunities in existing products to enrich them with ML ideas.
• Define data collection, evaluation mechanism and production serving strategy.
• Design solutions that can scale and consider system extensibility.
• Communicate technical ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Design metrics and experiments to analyze problems and measure results.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy research results into production.
• Explain complex ML concepts to varied audiences and contribute to IP with publications or patents.

Skills

AI/ML/NLP expertise

Industry impact

Search Ranking

Java

Scala

Python

3+ years experience

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/EE/Stats/Applied Math

Tools

Java

Scala

Python

Job description

Yahoo Search is seeking a senior ML engineer to reimagine search by applying advanced AI techniques and building scalable ML-powered features. You will work across data, research, and product teams to translate research into production systems.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years driving impact in industry, a PhD or MS in a related field, and deep experience with NLP, ML, and search ranking. You will code in Java/Scala/Python and contribute to publications and patents.